More than two weeks after the elections (November 26), the Superior Electoral Court (Tribunal Superior Electoral, TSE) has not named a winner still. The candidate of the center-left Alliance Against the Dictatorship, Salvador Nasralla, has faced the current President, Juan Orlando Hernández and the Liberal Party which is in a very distant third position. According to all the information and evidence, the elections have been won by Nasralla.

The European Left condemns the bloodiest terrorist crime in recent Egyptian history, when terrorists bombed and attacked hundreds of praying Moslems in a Mosque in Bir al-Abd in northern Sinai during the Friday prayer, on 24 November 2017. More than 305 have been killed, among them 27 children, and over a hundred wounded.

The attack seems to have been carried out by 25 – 30 local representatives of Islamic State and is a serious escalation of violence and methods.

The Working Group on Latin America of the Party of the European Left (EL) expresses its absolute rejection to the new aggression of the European Union (EU) against the Venezuelan people. The EU now intends to impose all kinds of sanctions on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, evidently inspired by the policies of boycott against humanity of international imperialism. The EU wants to extend its values ​​of systematic repressive actions on workers - the infamous austerity policies - in independent and sovereign countries such as Venezuela.